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MITRE Corporation
     
         A US federally funded R&D center, spun off in 1958 from
        the {MIT Lincoln Laboratory} (also an FFRDC).  MITRE is a
        non-profit corporation chartered to do R&D in the public
        interest.
     
        MITRE were responsible for system engineering and
        implementation oversight of {SAGE}.
     
        MITRE does not stand for MIT Research and Engineering, though
        it could have.
     
        {Home (http://www.mitre.org/)}.
     
        (1999-12-16)